VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Yitang Yang
dblp:426/3223
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · unresolved
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper |
Cloud and datacenter computing · 39% Distributed systems · 30% Performance modeling and evaluation · 30% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Distributed systems › distributed machine learning
distributed training |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Kair: A Statistical and Causal Approach to Pinpointing Stragglers in Distributed Model Training · ASE 2025 |
Cloud and datacenter computing
straggler detection |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Kair: A Statistical and Causal Approach to Pinpointing Stragglers in Distributed Model Training · ASE 2025 |
Performance modeling and evaluation
workload characterization |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Kair: A Statistical and Causal Approach to Pinpointing Stragglers in Distributed Model Training · ASE 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
kolmogorov-smirnov statistics · 0.9causal inference · 0.9anomaly detection · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Kair: A Statistical and Causal Approach to Pinpointing Stragglers in Distributed Model TrainingabstractThe distributed deep learning training process within large-scale clusters serves as the foundation of contemporary artificial intelligence. However, its inherent characteristics make it particularly sensitive to stragglers, specifically the presence of slow workers, which can significantly decelerate the entire procedure. Observability tools are essential for identifying stragglers within systems. However, the prevailing system profiling tools are either designed for single-node analysis, lacking visibility across multiple workers, or they recognize stragglers but only deliver high-level symptoms, providing engineers with insufficient insight into the underlying causes.We design Kair, a robust production-standard observability tool. Kair uses an innovative hierarchical approach, transitioning from statistical anomaly detection to causal inference. It employs Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistics for the identification of statistically anomalous workers and implements a causal path tracing algorithm to accurately determine the specific operations, such as computation or communication, that are responsible for the delay. Kair has been evaluated in a production cluster of 2,048 NVIDIA A800 GPUs and demonstrated high effectiveness in detecting latent stragglers at the framework level that are often overlooked by conventional tools. It offers precise suggestions that markedly reduce processing inefficiencies and engineering workload. Yitang Yang, Jiapeng Chen, Tianyu Wo, Chunming Hu, Chengru Song, Jin Ouyang, Renyu Yang |
ASE | 1 |